[1] His research primarily focuses on program evaluation, teacher quality, preschools, national and international student assessments, reading instruction, education technology, and education data systems.
[1] Prior to these positions, Whitehurst served as Lead Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
A program he developed to enhance school readiness in children from low-income families, Dialogic Reading, is widely used in preschools around the world.
[1] He received his Ph.D. in experimental child psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1970.
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